Tag: Open Source

Tomorrow, Our WordPress Website Agency Is Giving Back via Five for the Future

Tomorrow, September 29, is Five for the Future Friday at WebDevStudios. Now, if you know, you know. But in case you don’t, Five for the Future is a WordPress initiative designed to encourage WordPress website agencies (like ours), other WordPress companies, and...

Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer

I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I still feel more like a...

Upcoming Webinar: Why Enterprise Companies Should Use WordPress

As many of you know, our team is filled with folks who love going to events, both WordCamps and otherwise. In particular, our executive team is well-known for organizing and presenting at events across the world, and their eclectic backgrounds have given...

WebDevStudios Products Reach the Next Level with Pluginize.com

We said last year that our focus would be on driving new products, with a focus on Maintainn, AppPresser, and some more things that were in the pipeline. Not long after, we brought John Hawkins aboard. Now, we are excited to finally...

WebDevStudios for Shopify: The Shopify eCommerce Plugin

If you keep an eye on WordPress Twitter, you might have heard little birds tweeting about some of our recent work with Shopify! Shopify is an e-commerce software that provides a hassle-free platform for shop owners to run their own online store...

There and Back Again: A BuddyPress Tale

The Beginnings I am no stranger to contributing to open source. I have contributed in some way or another since early 2007, when I found a love for Linux and the Fedora Project. I was approaching the end of my time in...

Custom Metaboxes and Fields 1.0.0 Released!

If you’re not already familiar, Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress is a WordPress drop-in plugin that will “create metaboxes with custom fields that will blow your mind.” The Custom Metaboxes and Fields (CMB) library is a frequently used tool at WebDev, so I...

Drupal version 5.11 and 6.5 Final Released

Drupal, the popular open-source CMS, released version 5.11 and 6.5 core update. This release does patch critical security vulnerabilities exposed in older versions and is a recommended upgrade. Drupal is a powerful open source content management system and an excellent choice for...

Microblogging Website Identi.ca Launches a Twitter Compatible API

Laconica, the Open Source Microblogging Framework that runs http://Identi.ca, has released a Twitter compatible API. So what is Identi.ca? Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular,...